1948 CJ2a project

Decided that my CJ2a needed a complete redo.  Talked it over with my sons, age 26 and 15, and decided that we would tear it down and get it done.  The Jeep is the one I bought from my Uncle Ivan about 20 years ago.  He had two Jeeps, one red and one blue.  He called the blue on the Sunday Jeep.  It was a Ford WWII surplus, still had the blackout tail lights and gun racks in the bed.  I remember riding around in his woods in the red one.  We would cross the creek at this spot with a limestone bottom, sometimes the water was deeper than others.  I bought both Jeeps and sold the Ford several years ago.  I sort of wish I had kept it, but it was much worse shape than the red Willys. 

I had the motor rebuilt several years ago and so I am not going to do anything to it during this rebuild.  The Jeep is pretty straight, has little rust in the floor pans and is complete, with NO Bubba modifications. 

 

We have successfully removed the tub and all drivetrain components.  The usual three kinds of trouble removing the steering wheel, resorted to buying the puller described in this forum.  It worked, but required a good whack with a hammer to break it loose.

I have lots of pictures and I am trying to figure out to post them, but I get a size limitation.  What is the best way to post pictures? 

 

I had to resize mine.  See if you can edit the pixels to 800x600.

Clone421 wrote: If you host your photos on  a seperate site such as this one, http://imageshack.us/, you shouldn't have a problem with the image being too large. You can also set the image size on the uploading page, 800x600 is a size that works well for the forum. Just be sure to link to the full picture and not the thumbnail, makes it easier on the rest of us when you have a whole lot of pictures. The best part is that its all free.

An important caution to anyone using Image Shack or the other free image hosting services is this:  Their terms of service (ToS) vary.  For instance, if you upload to Image Shack without registering and logging into your account, those images will be deleted if, at any time, they are not accessed for a year.  That means that any of those infrequently accessed images in posts here will be gone and the the value to the forum is lost!  If you go through some of the older threads here, you will see references to valuable photos that are not available any longer.  Because of this issue, I strongly urge anyone wanting to post photos in a thread here to learn how to resize and upload them here.  That way, they will persist here as long as the forum is active.   Alternatively, pay close attention to the ToS and be sure that you are using the service in a way that the images will persist and continue to be available.

Here is an excerpt from the Image Shack Terms of Service:

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Not to pick on Mike G, but here is a link to post in the Parts Project where he had posted useful reference photos using Photobucket.  They are gone and the post is useless.

http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/corcoran-brown-headlight_topic3086_post21049.html#21049

While I'm on my rant, here is a link to a post by GaryArf, that also used to have excellent reference photos.  These are also gone missing.   Horn and Bracket

So, it is far better to upload photos to the File manager space in this forum than rely on some of the free photo hosting services.

Edited by samcj2a - 06 July 2012 at 6:06pm

Let the wife have the color she likes and get another Jeep for yourself.  Win-win!

You can do it, no sweat!

 The proper way to assemble these hubs onto the axle shaft is to slide the hub on WITHOUT the key, as far as you can push it, align the keyways in the hub and axle, THEN slide the key in and install the washer and nut. If the key is installed in the axle shaft keyway and then the hub pushed on, well, you can see what happens.  BW

Finally got some time to get back onto the CJ2a re-assembly.  Have all the brake lines install and getting ready to re-install the motor and transfer case.  Slowly making progress.

Finally got back to working on the CJ2A. Getting ready to put the motor, transmission and transfer case back in and had a problem.  My son was helping me and doesn't know his own strength and twisted off one of the bolts that mount the pressure plate to the flywheel.  Have to fix that before proceeding.  What are the torque specs for clutch bolts??